(171210) -- NANJING, Dec. 10, 2017 -- The combo picture shows the portrait, signature of Zhao Jinhua and illustrated story reviving her tragedy based on facts. Born on Dec. 22, 1924, Zhao is a survivor of Nanjing Massacre, a heinous crime committed by the Japanese militarists during World War II in 1937, in Nanjing, then capital of China. In December of 1937, then 13-year old Zhao witnessed the sister of her grandma being raped and drowned into a river with the lower part of the body mutilated. The year 2017 marks the 80th anniversary of the Nanjing Massacre, in which more than 300,000 Chinese
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(171210) -- NANJING, Dec. 10, 2017 -- The combo picture shows the portrait, signature of Zhao Jinhua and illustrated story reviving her tragedy based on facts. Born on Dec. 22, 1924, Zhao is a survivor of Nanjing Massacre, a heinous crime committed by the Japanese militarists during World War II in 1937, in Nanjing, then capital of China. In December of 1937, then 13-year old Zhao witnessed the sister of her grandma being raped and drowned into a river with the lower part of the body mutilated. The year 2017 marks the 80th anniversary of the Nanjing Massacre, in which more than 300, 000 Chinese were killed by the Japanese invaders who occupied Nanjing on Dec. 13, 1937, marking the start of six weeks of destruction, pillage, rape and slaughter in the city. There are only less than 100 living survivors of the atrocity. Reporters from Xinhu PUBLICATIONxNOTxINxCHN